{"id":2543,"date":"2011-06-28T16:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2011-06-28T16:58:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:58:27","slug":"chewing-the-fat-how-much-should-you-weigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2011\/06\/chewing-the-fat-how-much-should-you-weigh.html","title":{"rendered":"Chewing the Fat – How Much Should YOU Weigh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dear Our Lady of Weight Loss ~<\/strong><\/em> I just love your humor and creativity!!\u00a0\u00a0 I have a question. I was 5′ 4″ and now I am 5′ 2″ and weigh 133 pounds, but I want to get down to what a 5’2″ person weighs.<\/p>\n

What do you recommend?\u00a0 ~ B.B. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Dear B.B. ~<\/strong><\/em> A couple of thoughts, B.B., if I may!\u00a0 (WARNING: \u00a0 “If I may” means that I am asking permission to give you a Kick in the Tush!!! With warmth and love, not too much of sting today!)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

First of all, according to your standard insurance chart, a female who is 5’2″ tall ‘should’ weigh between 111 and 147 pounds!\u00a0 Therefore, by the grace of standardized charting, you are deemed ‘normal.’<\/p>\n

You stated that you want to weigh what a person who is 5’2″ weighs and there you are … 5’2″ and just fine the weigh<\/em> you are (ha!)! <\/em>How does it feel to be ‘normal?’
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Are you surprised?\u00a0 Did you think I’d say, “B.B., you SHOULD weigh 110 pounds???”\u00a0 Or perhaps, you were thinking 5 pounds off would do you?<\/p>\n

The truth of the matter is that each one of us is built very differently, our weight is carried differently, and if there is anything that we ‘should’<\/em> do, it’s this:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Wipe out what the ‘agreed upon reality’ looks like <\/strong>and tap into your ‘inner thinner core.’<\/strong> There is no ‘one fits all’ number of number range. Let the numbers float out there.\u00a0 Don’t take them in on a concrete, cellular level.\u00a0 Release the number thingy and let the numbers float out there …<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Choose a non-number goal.<\/strong> When I first set off on my journey to Sveltesville*, I thought, “It would be amazing to fine my waist.”\u00a0 FINDING MY WAIST was my first goal.\u00a0\u00a0 It was absolutely thrilling when I started to go from ‘box shaped’ to curvy!\u00a0 I can’t remember what the number was; nor does it matter.\u00a0 I could have been any number and not had a waist.\u00a0 You dig?<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Look for What You LOVE About Yourself<\/strong> … and build from there.\u00a0 Even in my darkest moment, when I weighed in and I was the fattest ever, I still loved (aka appreciated) that I was willing to look at it, however painful, the truth of where my actions had brought me (essentially to a WW meeting… again).\u00a0 I loved that I cried real tears.\u00a0 Essentially, it was a painfully powerful moment.\u00a0 I didn’t say I was happy about it; I said that I loved that it was a real moment and I was present with my pain.\u00a0 In being present, I was able to ride it out and change.\u00a0 But that’s a bigger story – more than I can write here … )<\/p>\n

Now … each and everyone of you, please. Toss whatever you think the “Agreed Upon Reality” <\/em>is straight out the window, choose a non-number goal, and appreciate something\u00a0 about yourself.\u00a0 Appreciate that you are reading this and thinking!\u00a0 Reading and thinking is great.\u00a0 Thinking and pondering even better.<\/p>\n

Think, ponder, change and finally, evolve.
\nThat’s right …
\n… Don’t just improve.\u00a0 Evolve!!! <\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope this helps!!! I really do!!!!!!<\/p>\n

Please (all of you!\u00a0 yes, ALL!!!)<\/em>, write me.\u00a0 What is your new goal????????<\/em> ~ OLofWL<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

OMG, BB, I was so standing on my ‘weight loss soap box’ that I forgot to say “Thank you for your kind words; your compliments!!!”\u00a0 I appreciate the accolades and your acknowledgement of my humor and creativity!!! … So – THANK YOu!!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

PS:\u00a0 Seriously, if I may (remember, I’m asking permission to give you a Kick in the Tush) …
\n… if you can sign up for my Omega workshop (August 5 – 7), entitled: Feed Your Soul.\u00a0 The absolute truth of the matter is that you cannot per<\/a>manently drop pounds, release weight, lose it<\/a> without feeding your soul.\u00a0 You may lose it, but you will find it AGAIN!!!\u00a0 Is that what you want????\u00a0 Empty Soul = Stuffed Body<\/p>\n

PPS:\u00a0 This is your last change to enroll in\u00a0 A Course in Miracle Whips<\/a> (at the discounted early bird special).\u00a0 This amazing and mind-changing, soul-feeding 6-week e-course starts on Tuesday July 5!)<\/p>\n

*Sveltesville is the promised land, where cravings are a thing of the past.\u00a0 Numbers matter not. Happiness reigns supreme.\u00a0 Our Lady of Weight Loss is the Mayor!<\/p>\n

Spread the word \u2026 NOT the icing,<\/p>\n

Janice<\/p>\n

wise * fun * utterly useful<\/em><\/p>\n

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Join with me at Omega Institute for Holistic Studies<\/a> on August 5-7:\u00a0 FEED YOUR SOUL!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

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